CHILDHOOD AND MEDIA

Teme ovog završnog rada su djetinjstvo i mediji te njihova povezanost. Definira se pojam djetinjstva s različitih stajališta te opisuje slika o djetetu iz tradicionalne i suvremene perspektive. Također, definiraju se mediji, obrađuju središnji pojmovi vezani uz medijsku pedagogiju te analizira utjecaj medija na djecu. Djetinjstvo je ranjiv period u čovjekovu životu u kojem je dijete osjetljivo na sve podražaje iz svoje okoline pa je bitno zaštititi ga od mogućeg lošeg utjecaja. Budući da se u posljednjim desetljećima mediji sve više rasprostranjuju i koriste, čak i među djecom, velika je odgovornost odraslih ljudi (roditelja i odgojno-obrazovnih djelatnika) kontrolirati uvjete u kojima djeca konzumiraju medijski sadržaj te medijski ih odgojiti. Da bi to što uspješnije radili, potrebna je edukacija i samih roditelja i odgojno-obrazovnih djelatnika. Cilj ovog rada sažeti je teorijsku podloge tema te negativnog i pozitivnog utjecaja medija na djecu, a naposljetku smjernica i uputa roditeljima i odgojno-obrazovnim djelatnicima iz dostupne literature.The topics of this final thesis are the concept of childhood and the media and their connection. The concept of childhood is defined from different points of view and the representation of a child is described from a traditional and contemporary perspective. Also, the media is defined, along the central concepts related to media pedagogy, and the impact of media on children is analyzed. Childhood is a vulnerable period in a person's life in which the child is sensitive to all stimuli from their environment, so it is important to protect them from possible bad influence. Since in recent decades the media has been increasingly spread and used, even among children, it is a great responsibility of adults (parents and educational workers) to control the conditions in which children consume media content and to educate them. In order to do this as successfully as possible, it is imperative to educate both the parents themselves and the educational staff. The objective of this paper is to summarize the theoretical foundation of the topics and the negative and positive influence of media on children, and finally, to provide guidelines and instructions for parents and educational workers from the available literature